The OSU Perspective was developed to provide assessment and other information about our students and programs. We hope that by making this information available to OSU faculty and staff, we can stimulate conversation that helps to keep students and student learning at our core.
The Perspective is published quarterly both...
Improving the quality of education and encouraging students to stay in school is one possible strategy for reducing poverty and raising local well-being in rural areas. A potential obstacle to this strategy, however, is outmigration to metro areas due to the lack of demand for this better-educated rural workforce, and...
This project was designed to get to the bottom of why child abuse and neglect rates continue to be so high in Klamath County. Community partners have a strong relationship with each other and are cooperating to address these issues; nevertheless, the numbers of children experiencing maltreatment remains well above...
This report describes the observations and opinions of Douglas County homeless youth and of the social service providers and advocates focused on assisting them. Initiated by the county’s Commission on Children and Families, and conducted by Oregon State University researchers, this study provides data and analysis which may assist service...
This white paper seeks to provide facts about the history of land use planning in Oregon while
also identifying some of the key challenges facing planning in the future. It also includes useful
information about the work of the Oregon Task Force on Land Use Planning (the “Big Look”
task...
The numerous initiatives targeting postsecondary science education improvement are diverse. Yet a key strategy of many initiatives are new organizational routines, that can regularly bring faculty together to learn new teaching-related knowledge, skills, and commitments. Regardless of some evidence of the success of these initiatives, more theory-informed empirical investigations are...
An oft-cited strategy for fostering instructional improvements to STEM education is creating faculty communities, where instructors can share and learn best teaching practices. Despite research-documented benefits, relatively little is known about why (and with whom) faculty engage in teaching-related conversations, including those fostered by initiatives. We explored how STEM faculty...
Building community capacity is a central concern of both policymakers and community residents. Both want to understand why some communities are more successful in achieving positive social, economic and environmental outcomes, and how to increase the capacity of communities to achieve these outcomes. This is particularly true in communities that...
In Spring 2017, I was tasked with analyzing and providing feedback on the Web of Science and Scopus databases from an advanced researcher point of view. At Oregon State University (OSU), we currently have a subscription to Web of Science, and we wanted to see if switching to Scopus might...
Using the Current Population Survey and its Food Security Supplement for 2002-2004, this analysis examines food insecurity and hunger in the Northwest. First comparing to earlier analyses, we document decreasing food insecurity and hunger for Oregon and Washington as a whole. Consolidating those two states and Idaho to describe the...
How does one identify, articulate, and relate the forces and influences at work in different geographic places? A satisfactory answer to this fundamental question is required for the formulation of a place-based public policy. Since 1986 the authors of this paper have been concerned with this question, and have evaluated...
This paper was prepared to fulfill partial requirements for SOC 315 and 316, which serve as the Writing Intensive Courses (WIC) required for a degree in Sociology from Oregon State University.
As the extent of household food insecurity in the US has become better understood, policymakers at the federal and state levels have sought to learn more about the multiple causes of food insecurity. Some have sought the explanation in the personal choices about marriage, child bearing, education and other life...
The Clackamas CWPP is a consolidated reference documenting wildfire hazards, prevention and response efforts, and resource sharing information for all participating local, state and federal fire agencies. It improves upon historical fire planning efforts by providing a more localized and accurate approach for determining wildfire hazards and implementing best practices...